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Re: 3rd of February 2020 - Sweet Treat Showdown "Dessert for two"

Now I have the treats to open the last boxes but thinking of playing the last 4 challenges to get some stuff 🤔 🤞

I bought the 3000ST pack with the Starlight tree & candles. The items are ok but I was hoping the tree would sparkle. It just glows 💡😆

- Simoleons used: 30 500

- Simoleons gained: 22 600

- cupcakes used 12

- 4 burned desserts

I played most of the time carefully, so not sure if the challenges were easier or not. Got burnt twice with 94% chance.. 🤦‍♀️ Extra percentages from ads gave chances to secure the percentages closer to 100%.

Re: 3rd of February 2020 - Sweet Treat Showdown "Dessert for two"

I just want to throw out my first impressions of doing the STS using the Golden Ticket.

(Yes, my curiosity got the better of me and I cracked & bought it)

I definitely think getting the Golden Ticket did help,

however I think the COST is ridiculously too expensive. I would probably continue to buy it again in the future— but at Half what they are charging now.

I also really like the addition of the Free Ads & the use of the Gold Mixer.

Getting the extra %, the Life Tickets, Simoleans, Cupcakes etc. helped me get further in the bake offs than I ever had in the past. I even actually finished a couple Bake Off Challenges 😂

I finished this STS event with several days left to go, BUT I foolishly didn’t think about holding back a few boxes to keep getting tokens until the end.

Those would have been converted into simoleans eventually anyway. Kicking myself for that.

But, hey, I didn’t know that since I only completed one STS in the past and it was down to the wire 😒

My final impression is that even with the new additions, Gold Ticket, etc, I, personally still find STS’s Events extremely Boring, Repetitive, & Time Consuming (I don’t want to be tied to my devices) & lastly Too Expensive

Wish FM would alternate other successful past events or come up with some fresh new ideas for new fun events 🤞

Im assuming that this Gold Ticket thing is going to be a staple in the STS now, because it had to be a big money maker for EA imho and I don’t see it ending any time soon & especially after seeing the preview for the upcoming STS Mansion prize Items 🙄

But Kudos to FM for the Transparent Window & Day/Night Cycles 👏 At least we know they are open to our suggestions!

Re: 3rd of February 2020 - Sweet Treat Showdown "Dessert for two"

Little update to my STS: I did the four challenges and collected the grand prizes 👍 For a moment I was worried since the server went down before the last challenge and quite soon after finishing the showdown it was down again 😬

Some more statistics

- 7 round challenges: 16

- 9 round challenges: 13

- 10 round challenges: 17

+ tutorial round

During challenges gathered

- 24 100 Simoleons

- tickets: 18 life, 7 lux and 14 super

- 27 fashion gems

- 8 simcash

& watched +200 ads

And like previously mentioned I spent 30 500 Simoleons & 12 cupcakes.

This time I got more 10 round challenges 😮 And the burn rate was less than 10% 😮

I played almost half of the challenges before I started to really gather extra items from ads since I was thinking that I have to be sure I have enough ads for all the challenges during that day.. 😬🙄😄

With the ads in the challenge and with these odds&playing safe, the grand prizes can be achieved with quite small amount of resources since you’re able to gather at least some of it back. Still, not saying it’s easy or fun.. I spend quite a lot of time doing the challenges and calculating 🙄 So you need time and patience.. Yet, there’s no guarantees 🙄And all the odds can be quite the opposite on the next STS 😬

Re: 3rd of February 2020 - Sweet Treat Showdown "Dessert for two"

@jayivy666 Nothing wrong with using the ticket 🎫 or simcash for that matter. 😊

I checked some of the options the golden mixer was giving and there were also actions like 1500 simoleons with 6 sugarcubes. So one has to pay attention with that one too, so you don’t accidentally use your sugars for items when you need them for percentages. But I believe all the people who bought the ticket (and had no technical issues) also got the grand prizes 🤞 Hoping at least 😄